The Compound

We are excited to announce the exhibition: DISTRACTED SOLDIERS, as Chapter 1 and the foundation of Silver Baits, Silver Archives.

Distracted Soldiers is a group exhibition examines the strange intimacy between discipline and distraction, tracing the subtle ways discipline hides inside movement, habits, and act of attention.

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Featuring works by Kyoungho Isaac Kim , Coco Klockner .flac, Alyssa Matthews , Talia Rudofsky , Chase Satterwhite , Vavara Tokareva , Aineki Traverso , Kay Yoon , Monsieur Zohore

June 20 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 20, 5–8 PM
w. performance by Dr. Bonnie Lander

Gallery Hours: Fri&Sat 12-4pm; Mon&Wed by appointment (contact info on website)

The Compound is thrilled to announce our first tenant curated exhibition “Obscura” by our whimsical Kristen Landsman ! Obscura is a three-person exhibition featuring Marnie Ellen Hertzler Kristen Landsman, and Michael Northrup . Across distinct practices, the artists engage with images and objects that feel improperly encountered; seen out of place, removed from their intended or assumed context.

Opening Reception: Friday May 8th, 5-8PM
Duration: May 8 - June 6th, 2026
Main Space, 2239 Kirk Ave

This exhibition frames viewership within a push and pull between permission and intrusion, where looking becomes both the premise and the problem, edging toward voyeurism.

Please come to join us at the opening night on the 8th, have some viewing play.

For the month of March, Artist-in-Residence Lamar Robillard worked within his archive —
scanning, sorting, and pulling from over a decade of negatives in preparation for his forthcoming book, My First Song.

What’s presented here is a loose activation set to accompany the release titled Negative Space, the exhibition unfolded as an environment where contact sheets and negatives spread across the walls like fragments of memory in motion.

Alongside this, his archival film Ghetto Gospel & The Ambiguity of Truth
played as a visual poem featuring Super 8 footage of New York interwoven with photographic remnants, blurring the line between document and dream.

Images appeared on raw wooden panels —
an ode to material honesty, where the photograph resists polish and remains exposed.

Throughout the space, Black knights stood as sentinels —figures of resistance,holding the room, watching over what remains and what is still becoming. Enjoy a bit of the process.